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Two 47s are seen shunting the factory sidings and stabled between duties on the loop headshunt.

CIE unit load trucks at the Lakeview freight yard.

Locomotive 156 works the Lakeview freight yard-Westport laden bagged cement liner earlier in Tara junction.

I visited the modellers corner earlier today-Warren has a great selection of railways and was expecting a fresh delivery of model railways over the next two days-needless to say I will return on Monday

When 56001 got into difficulty with the MGR train,59001 was sent to rescue and haul the loco and train to the discharge point at Fiddlers ferry.

Hunslet locomotive 102 works the heavy laden fertliser train from Belfast to Dublin Northwall, 036 works the laden Shelton abbey-Marino point ammonia train through Tara junction. IMG_7843.mov IMG_7837.mov

Cutting and filling-and moving the doors.

My 2751 bi-cab unit is taken from a centre car from a Bachmann three car turbo star-the powered car.

Mayo GAA 1989 special train. Reeling in the years back to 1989-we see 130+192 hauling the 07:15 Ballina-Dublin Connolly through Tara junction, While Mayo wasn’t successful on that occasion 37 years later SAM MAGUIRE finally came home

Of course Jonathan…..and one to Sligo too

You can do four white logos Derek-the larger white ones on the body side while the smaller white ones on the front and rear. The C class had different styles and colours of logos over their lifetime so I wouldn’t worry too much. The black CIE logo was used on the Dublin City tan coloured buses while the orange would have been used on the brown and cream CIE tours coaches.

A visitor to station road -a West Yorkshire RELL single decker bus, I’ve always had a fondness for the buses of West Yorkshire

I use the new gaugemaster infinity DCC controller for Ballisodare mill….easy to use and set up.

Steam has arrived on Tara junction….

With possession of the railway line at Tara junction granted to the PICOP at 23:30 hrs…..locomotive 073 can commence operating the rail head cleaning wagon around the layout with particular emphasis on the hard to reach/tunnel area which will be cleaned four times. it’s going to be a long night…..